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There are four basic flavors that we taste. Sweet, salt, bitter, sour. How do the four tastes interact with wine and food? The different taste qualities either inhibit-suppress one another, or balance-compliment one another. Food and Wine Pairing Examples Sweet Complements Salt Sweet wines such as Port or Sauternes compliment Stilton cheese because sweet and salt balance one another. Sweet Suppresses Bitter Sweetness suppresses...

Pinot Noir is a red wine that sometimes thinks it’s a white because it’s crisp and soft enough to go with more “white-wine dishes” than most red wines. This is why Pinot Noir may be the ultimate food wine. Here are its classic food and wine pairing matches: Leaner meats (veal, chicken, turkey, rabbit, any game bird, filets of beef or pork, and a well-drained duck) Smoked, wood-roasted, braised or sausage meats...